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Yahoo! News: Elections


Huntsman addresses his Obama role in SC speech (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 01:13 PM PDT

Former U.S. Ambassador to China and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman speaks at the commencement ceremony for the University of South Carolina on Saturday, May 7 2011 in Columbia, S.C.  Huntsman, weighing a Republican White House bid, used his first formal event after stepping down as President Barack Obama's ambassador to China to confront the line on his resume that conservatives were mostly likely to declare a deal-breaker. In a high-profile speech to the University of South Carolina, Huntsman said patriotism should trump partisanship and defended his two years in Beijing as the Democratic administration's top diplomat. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Republican Jon Huntsman, weighing a White House bid, used his first formal event after stepping down as President Barack Obama's ambassador to China to confront the line on his resume that conservatives were most likely to declare a deal-breaker.


The Trump Backlash Begins (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:53 AM PDT

Donald Trump (C) and his wife Melania (R) arrive for pre-parties before the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington April 30, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Bourg    (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS MEDIA)The Daily Beast - The Donald Trump steamroller got run off the road last week, and getting back on track may not be easy.


Ron Paul Raised $1 Million Overnight (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 06 May 2011 07:25 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - The Republican's more mainstream candidates, however, have been having their share of fundraising woes. President Obama aims to raise $1 billion for his 2012 reelection campaign, well above his record-breaking $750,000,000 in donations in 2008. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, an establishment candidate, decided not to run last month in part because he doubted he could match Obama's fundraising pace. "He's going to have $100 million in the bank before any of the Republican candidates catch their breath," one of Barbour's advisers told NBC News' Michael Isikoff.

Often What One President Begins, the Next President Finishes (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 07 May 2011 12:32 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - Great projects started by one President of the United States are often concluded by his successor. Dearth, term limits and failure to win re-election sometimes intervene to terminate one administration before its primary task is done.

Wisconsin Republicans rush agenda before recalls (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 11:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2011 file photo, volunteers deliver petitions to recall Wisconsin Senators Robert Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie and Jim Holperin, D-Conover, to the Government Accountability Board in Madison, Wis.  Wisconsin Republicans plan to ram through years' worth of conservative agenda items in the next eight weeks before recall elections this summer could hand control of the Senate back to Democrats. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal/John Hart, File)AP - Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker and GOP leaders have launched a push to ram several years' worth of conservative agenda items through the Legislature this spring before recall elections threaten to end the party's control of state government.


Michelle Obama lauds US forces in bin Laden raid (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 11:25 AM PDT

AP - First lady Michelle Obama said Saturday that the U.S. military specialists who killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden showed "the very essence" of public service.

Republican Santorum wins South Carolina straw poll (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2011 10:31 AM PDT

Reuters - Republican Rick Santorum got credit for showing up and won a 2012 presidential straw poll of party activists in the crucial early voting state of South Carolina, organizers said on Saturday.

Obama's pledged trip to Pakistan less certain (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 02:23 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks from Marine One across the South Lawn to the White House, Friday, May 6, 2011 in Washington, as he returns from Kentucky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama's promised trip to Pakistan this year, once seen as a reward for a key ally in the fight against terrorism, is now a looming headache for the White House as it tries to determine whether the government in Islamabad was complicit in allowing Osama bin Laden to live for years within the country's borders.


Automatic budget cuts have spotty record (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 02:10 PM PDT

President Barack Obama salutes as he steps off of Marine One onto the South Lawn to the White House, Friday, May 6, 2011 in Washington, as he returns from Kentucky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Congress and President Barack Obama are proposing ways to automatically trigger budget savings if they can't rein in deficits the old-fashioned way, by enacting laws to cut spending or raise taxes. Similar efforts in the past have a spotty record.


Singapore opposition makes election breakthrough (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 01:57 PM PDT

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (C) of the People's Action Party (PAP) joins hands with some of his candidates as they celebrate victory in the general election in Singapore. Singapore's PAP was returned to power on Sunday with a huge majority but suffered a drop in popularity and lost a key district to a resurgent opposition.(AFP/Mohd Fyrol)AFP - Singapore's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) was returned to power on Sunday with a huge majority but suffered a drop in popularity and lost a key district to a resurgent opposition.


Bin Laden directed Qaeda from Pakistan compound (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2011 01:20 PM PDT

Abbottabad, the city where Navy SEAL commandos killed Osama bin Laden is seen in this arial view taken May 6, 2011. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodReuters - Osama bin Laden was actively engaged in directing his far-flung network in plots against the United States from the compound in Pakistan where he was killed, a senior U.S. intelligence official said as new video images of the al Qaeda leader were released on Saturday.


Syrian forces launch deadly raid on hotbed city (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT

An image grab taken from footage broadcast by the Syrian state television shows Syrian protesters gathering in an unidentified city as smoke billows from burning trash inside a garbage container. Syrian security forces shot dead at least 26 protesters on May 6 as thousands rallied on a AFP - Syrian forces rained gunfire on Banias Saturday as they pushed ahead with an assault on the restive port, killing six people, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad's opponents called for elections to end the crisis.


La. Gov. Bobby Jindal releases birth certificate (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 10:20 AM PDT

AP - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who was born in Baton Rouge to immigrant parents from India, has released his birth certificate.

Independent RI gov. turns to public for support (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 10:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2011 file photo, Lincoln Chafee enters a reception in the Rhode Island Statehouse's 'State Room'  in Providence, R.I., before he takes the oath of office as Rhode Island's first independent governor. Chafee, who left the GOP after he lost his U.S. Senate seat in 2006, has no party apparatus to put out favorable press releases. No built-in legislative support. Chafee says being independent makes him his own man, but it also means he has to fight harder to win support for his agenda.  (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)AP - Lincoln Chafee offered voters something new when he took office this year as the nation's only sitting independent governor. But the former Republican is learning that while it may resonate with voters, independence can be lonely.


Republican answers critics of service under Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2011 08:38 AM PDT

Jon Huntsman speaks to journalists in front of the Beijing High People's Court after an appeal of Xue Feng in Beijing in this February 18, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic/FilesReuters - Republican Jon Huntsman, a potential White House contender and former ambassador to China, used his first public speech since returning from Beijing to answer conservative critics who question his service under President Barack Obama.


Hispanic Voters On the Fence (Daily Caller)

Posted: 07 May 2011 08:13 AM PDT

Daily Caller - Candidate Barack Obama ’s 2012 campaign team is set to announce a Hispanic outreach campaign next week, just as President Barack Obama travels to the Mexican border to give a speech on immigration.

Syria army attacks Banias (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2011 07:54 AM PDT

Protesters hold up banners during a protest in solidarity with anti-government protesters in Syria, after Friday prayers, outside a mosque in Sidon, southern Lebanon, May 6, 2011. The banners read: (L and 2nd L) Reuters - Syrian tanks attacked the mostly Sunni Muslim city of Banias on Saturday, a rights campaigner said, raising sectarian tension in a country gripped by protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.


Teens Who Admitted to Bullying Phoebe Prince Sentenced (Time.com)

Posted: 07 May 2011 07:25 AM PDT

Time.com - The five teenagers accused of carrying out a "three month campaign" of bullying that resulted in Phoebe Prince's suicide last year have been sentenced

Obama tries to reassure public on economy, jobs (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 06:14 AM PDT

President Barack Obama talks with employees Mike Clements, right, and Richard Thomas during a tour at Allison Transmission in Indianapolis, Ind., Friday, May 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama is reassuring the public that jobs and the economy are his top priority.


Singapore election results expected in a few hours (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:47 AM PDT

Reuters - Singaporeans voted on Saturday in the city-state's most hotly contested parliamentary election since independence, although Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's long-ruling People's Action Party (PAP) is almost certain to retain power.

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